ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,079, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle display system" was invented by Mark Larry (Macomb, Mich.), Biaohe Guo (Northville, Mich.), Martin van Hoeckel (Woodstock, Canada) and Jonathan Diedrich (Carleton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a display unit and a computer communicatively coupled to the camera. The display unit includes a display panel, a circuit board fixed relative to the display panel, a plurality of visible-light light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted to the circuit board, and a plurality of infrared LEDs mounted to the circuit board an...